I have asserted that the Occupy movement is GSE (government-sponsored enterprise). No, it's not quite on the scale of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac but it has the same constituancy namely ACORN, SEIU, and other various public sector unions. In the extreme case of Oakland city workers were permitted to take personal time off to participate in the so called general strike, which vandalized private property, without losing pay. Supporting my assertion is the fact that two New York public schoold teacher have been arrested in the last week in Occupy Wall Street protests.
From the New York Post: " Joshua Wiles, 27, of Bedford Stuyvesant, was cuffed at 3:30 p.m. with 19 other anti-greed demonstrators at the corner of Centre Street and Pearl Street." And; " Bronx schoolteacher David Suker was busted twice in connection with the protest - once on the Brooklyn Bridge during a huge demonstration last month - and on Friday at Thompson and Prince streets. Police said Suker shoved a shopping cart at a sergeant, knocking the cop to the ground."
These are the victims of Wall Street? Probably forgiveness of their student loans plays into their motivation for this sillyness but one suspects that they harbor more antipathy for the American taxpayer than for Goldman Sachs.
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